Drake VS Kendrick Explained to White People

I don't know if

you I don't know if you've been

following this

uh maybe not I just realized

how white this room

is I mean this pop culture you probably

heard about I mean I don't know if

you've been watching this whole Drake

and

Kendrick my my my

what a time to be

alive all right so Drake and

Kendrick they are rappers sir they're

rappers I okay just I want to make sure

everybody and I'm not acting like I know

you might bump Kendrick all the time you

might be a big pimpa butterfly fan you

know I'm just

checking

so Drake and Kendrick's relationship

actually goes back way further than

people realize because Drake brought

Kendrick with him on tour when Kendrick

was like just starting to pop but Drake

was already a big deal right and it

seemed like they were cool you see these

old interviews they're in pictures

together they have such nice things to

say about each other and then along the

line something changed

something happened and we don't know

what that thing is really but they both

started to kind of like go at each other

in small ways and and some people take

it all the way back to the control verse

Kendrick did a verse in a song on uh it

was actually a big sea song big sea is a

rapper sir these

are I just want to all of these are just

names and I want to make sure that we're

all up to spe so he did a a verse on a

Big Sean song called control but it blew

up so much it became Kendrick's verse it

became the control verse which is crazy

and in and in that in that verse he went

at everybody he said he called people

out by name you know and he said I got

love for you all but I'm trying to

murder you I'm trying to make sure that

your fans don't even love you anymore

they love me so much I'm coming for the

crown I'm coming for everything right

and just about everybody thought that it

was actually pretty dope it was actually

like okay hip-hop as a sport like

hip-hop as you know a fun thing a

contest to see who's actually the best

cuz everybody everybody calls themselves

the best on every song Eventually

someone has to be the best you know

every rapper believes that they're the

best and they say so in their music a

lot like how one city will have several

First Baptist Churches

when you look around you're like one of

y'all has to actually be first right

this can't how can y'all even all claim

to be first this is

confusing you know and so he releases

the control verse now this is something

maybe this is where it started it's

where a lot of people say it started but

maybe it was something else but Drake

seemed to take some sort of issue with

the love Kendrick was getting for that

verse with him being called out even

though he's someone that helped you know

uh Kendrick out in the beginning but

even in interviews Kendrick explained

himself he said like this is a this is a

contest to see who's the best it's all

love

right but

Drake Drake has okay Drake

has I'm trying to be fair Drake

has a lot of feelings and you can tell

cuz he has a lot of albums and there

are there are feelings on every one of

those albums and some people don't have

several albums worth of feelings some

people only have four or five albums

worth of feelings you know and some

people decide when to let it out and he

just lets it out on a pretty tight

schedule a

pretty a pretty regimented schedule of

release to let out all of his feelings

you know and and he said he's like I

just didn't like it it didn't feel

sincere I didn't I you know I just

didn't Vibe with the whole thing cuz

then I saw him later and he was all nice

to

me

yeah he said in his interview it was all

love it's just a contest and and then

from there they had they had like a

weirdness and then there's like little

things you can listen to certain songs

where Drake seems to be like digging

right at Kendrick but in a way where you

have to really look at it and wonder

right not saying his name and then

Kendrick even does a little bit of the

same but even even after a little bit of

this had kicked off they still work

together one or two more times right

because Drake was on good kid Mad City

Kendrick's album and Kendrick was on

take care so there's there's still at

least a professional relationship there

to some degree right fast

forward a few years and Drake's really

big and when I say really big he's like

what Bad Bunny is now he was back then

like top top top top in the world right

everybody wanted to be Drake everybody

wanted to sing a little bit of Drake he

was number one on Spotify every time he

released it was a big deal and so some

people admittedly were very jealous of

Drake you know there were people who

started to go at Drake a little bit and

Drake is a good writer he may he may

have writers that he works with he may

have but he's also good it's like when

he when he's making music everyone in

the room is good

[Laughter]

that's I'm trying to give him his Pro

I'm trying to be objective and y'all

trying to lean me into way

this but he's good and so you know Meek

Mill Meek Mill is a rapper sorry me

Mill cuz that one wasn't a name I just

want to make sure that at no point you

don't think that this is like

punctuation or anything cuz the names

are going to get weirder as I go right

okay MC Mill came at Drake and

Drake really truly even if you hate

Drake Drake destroyed McMill he

destroyed McMill so bad that MC Mill had

to go back to jail just

to just to level out some of that street

crap because you if you remember MC Mill

went back to jail for a while on like

this weird this this weird aspect of pro

prob ation that they even tried to get

changed as a law so then M Mill became

this like face of of of of of changing

incarceration and changing the criminal

justice system everything cuz he could

cuz he had to cuz he had to do something

else for a little while because Drake

really ate him up all

right and so more time passes and

there's still not much between Kendrick

and Drake in this moment

right and then then Drake gets into it

and I I want to be clear because a lot

of people sometimes feel bad for Drake

in a way that I want to be clear he does

start a lot of this

stuff he does like have a little thing

in a song that implies that your wife is

Unfaithful and then when you come at him

directly he's like what's with all the

hate I'm all love it's like

no no

the best way I can describe it is that

Drake kind of fights like a

cat and some rappers fight like

dogs and so you know he'll do a little

paw and he'll be like what's the

issue and so Drake went at push a

te which was a true mistake this's a

thing this's a thing

about people like push a te right you

don't want to mess with anyone who's

actually had a hard

life you know like you know Drake grew

up in Canada grew up with like it's just

this is my thing a lot of people come at

Drake for you know they come in at a way

I don't like they come at them in in

this like colorism way where he's like

you're not really black cuz you're half

white I don't roll with any of that I

just I just truly

think but you see you see what I'm

talking about I'm not I'm not y'all

trying to get me to do something I'm not

doing I'm just saying it's very hard for

a rapper to seem hard right when they

have not been through what other rappers

have been through like it's it's hard to

go hard when everybody knows you had

Healthcare cuz I'm not saying there

aren't hardened criminals in Canada I'm

not saying that at all I'm just saying

that if somebody knows that anytime you

were sick you could call a

doctor it just takes a little bit of the

wind out of the sales of like I'll kill

you it's

like yeah but if I hurt you you go to a

doctor immediately

like so anyway kendri Kendrick is still

off doing his thing releasing amazing

music but Drake gets into it with push a

t which was a mistake because he told

push T he's like I got more money than

you I got more women than you I'm more

famous than you'll ever be and then push

T said you have a

[Laughter]

son he released the fact that Drake had

a

son which people didn't

know on a track that's cover was Drake

in blackface

everything about what

push did to Drake is why you don't get

involved with people like push a t

you're like

like you know a part of me felt bad for

Drake Drake was probably like John at

the mouth and everything and didn't know

he' do

research like you know Drake is sitting

there like guys I thought we were

rhyming I thought

that I thought we were making music what

is

this so anyway now Drake perceivably

takes care of a son

and you

know

um whatever

um and so fast forward some more and you

would think that Drake had sort of learn

his lesson of like man I shouldn't throw

stones when I might have a lot of kids

[Laughter]

and for his part I will say this for for

his part every time somebody comes at

Drake he does come at them pretty hard

pretty heavy and he does release music

that his fans love and there are a lot

of his fans I'm I'm saying that's

something that I thought about going

into this thing where I was like he

always does really try to

like give you something but what he what

he gives is is twofold what Drake is

usually trying to give you that sort of

earworm trying to give you that thing

that takes you

to a place beyond the beef so now people

will still play back to back and and and

songs that were responses to beef he's

had in the past just as songs to enjoy

you know um and so this year

Drake and jcole started you

know they started doing appearances

together like J.Cole would pop up at

Drake's concert and jcole is also

someone who I genuinely believe is one

of the most talented phenomenal

musically inclined

artist that I've encountered I really

enjoy his music I don't know him as a

person and I don't I I'll I think he's

amazing right so he is

on a you know a couple of Drake song

after they appear together last year and

I and it it made me listen to those

songs I was like oh J Cole okay you know

cuz I I admitedly I hadn't listened to

Drake in a in a in a long time cuz I

only have a certain amount of

feelings I feel like I got pretty far I

feel like I listened to several albums

and then at a certain point I was like I

feel grown

like you know

and and anyway they do a song together

and then they do a song called first

person shooter and in first person

shooter they're going back and forth

about how how great the era is and how

great they are and first person shooter

is a fantastic song right and then uh

jcole in the song says uh like you

forgive me if I'm getting it wrong but

he says uh

um maybe something like we the top who

you know top top two

three okay and then he was like he was

like is

it what is it is it Kendrick is it

Aubrey or me cuz we're the big three

like we started the league but right now

I feel like Muhammad Ali right and I

guess I guess Kendrick heard

that and took it as a personal

affront I I would I wouldn't have felt

that like if if if two people were like

man we're the best ever and Josh is

great too and I wasn't even there I

would be like oh

thanks but I'm not built like

Kendrick you know and so then later uh

later we would also find out that

apparently Drake tried to get Kendrick

on that track so he knew it was coming

up and he didn't want any part of it and

then I guess he hated that he was me so

then Metro boomman and future Metro

booman and future are rappers

that cuz that could have been a label

name I'm not I'm not I'm not making fun

of you at all I'm just making sure

everybody is up to speed and you're

right in front of me that's all that's

happening right so Metro boomman and

future you know uh they release an album

called we don't trust TR you and on it

is a track called like that now like

that is uh where Kendrick does

essentially the control effect on this

song he does a verse that really made me

forget it was a song

I I don't know what anyone else said on

the

song right and on the song he says [ __ ]

the big three it's just big me right

which is also which is also hey I've

always said I want to be the best I've

said it from day one as soon as people

started interviewing me I said I want to

be the best as soon as people started

listening to my music I said I wanted to

be the best this is not out of character

for me this is the same thing I did 10

years ago right so just for me if it

were me if I if I was one of them if I

was Drake and I heard [ __ ] the big three

it's just big me I also wouldn't take it

as a personal

affront because there were other there

were other things in the song where he

came at at break specifically he didn't

really have much for J Cole

and and yeah it just sat for a while it

sat and everybody was like o what are

Drake and Cole going to do and then Cole

was actually I think the first one to

release he released this song that he's

since taken down called 7-minute drill

and he and he went at Kendrick in the

song and then he took it down and a lot

of people clowned him for it but it's

something that even I'm not I'm not

being a revisionist here I said this

when it happened I was like I respect

the fact that he took it down because he

it's not something he really wanted to

do and the internet is all gas no breaks

the internet will get you to mess up

your

life you mean people you don't know are

like I wouldn't take that if I was you

what you going

to huh do something huh huh people who

are very safe at home I wouldn't M if I

was you if I was you oh I'd go at his

neck I would oh I'd eat him alive if I

was you do something Jermaine do it do

it do

it and so he took it down and and he

even said he's like I didn't feel like

doing it so it's not even good I kind of

just went at him a little bit and it's

true in the song he doesn't even say

anything that bad he's just like one of

your albums was

boring I won't even say which

one and then he took it down cuz he said

I don't know I this felt corny and I

respected the hell out of that very few

men grown men famous men powerful men

very few ever apologize right very few

ever apologize without being made to

with the threat of losing their money

losing their Fame losing something very

few men so I respect that and and people

clowned them to no end but then the

actual beat between Drake and Kendrick

started and that was a

lot because Drake released a song called

push-ups and he didn't just go Kendrick

he went to a bunch of people and you

know implied that uh Kendrick's wife was

unfaithful that his son might not be his

and everything and people are like oh

what's Kendrick going to do what's going

to happen right and then you know he

releases another song and this song is

AI this song is is Drake and with the

late Tupac and Snoop Dogg and it's going

at Kendrick and some people had their

feelings about that but then oof oof oof

oof oof on a random morning on a random

morning I was you know it was right by

the time I was supposed to say my

prayers anyway you know your you know

your morning prayers you know you're

thank your God for waking me up this

morning right and Kendrick dropped a

song called

Euphoria and I think when it happened a

lot of people including me was like oh

this is an actual like rat beef now in

the way that we had in the '90s like

these dudes do not like each other and

Kendrick says he hates them in the song

he says I hate you he said it a lot he

said I hate you a lot like he did

artistically but he was like ooh I hate

you

ooh ooh I hate you ooh

right and

uh

woof it was a lot right and

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then and then you know

Drake

released actually no Kendrick released

one he released so many I actually lost

count so then he released a song that I

didn't even get to fully digest because

he released and then Drake released his

response and this was like what Drake

had been waiting for this was like all

these I mean in my opinion all these

years of like I was nice to you and then

you came at everybody including me and

all I'm doing is writing my feelings

down in albums and making money and like

I just want to be number one I just want

to be the best with feelings I want to

be the

best and so he just took everything

everything that he had and he put it in

a song called Family Matters

right and 20 minutes

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later 20 minutes later Kendrick released

a song called meet the grams which is a

real was a real playoff Family Matters

and he and and he had said in 616 before

he was like have you ever thought about

the fact that like people in your Camp

are working for me that everyone hates

you so much they feed me information

about you and that there's no way that

you're going to win this because I write

so many songs cuz all I do is hang out

with my wife and my kids and I write

right this is all that I do I enjoy this

this is my favorite thing to do is just

sit at home and hate you and write songs

about you and how much I hate you so I

can go forever this will never be over

we can chill we can just go back and

forth and I'll release 20 for every one

that you release you keep saying that

it's a 1 v20 and it is it's one of you

and it's 20 songs of me every single day

until the both of us died this is old

black man hate you got to understand

this doesn't happen this doesn't happen

with people under 60 almost ever this is

old this is old old old we knew each

other during the Civil Rights Movement

hate that he brought to this battle and

Drake was like guys I thought we were

rhyming

and in Meet the grams you know he laid

it down he starred the song by talking

to Drake's

son talking to Drake's son being like

I'm sorry that's your

father genuinely I'm sorry that's your

father cuz I can tell he's not raising

you well because I can tell he's not

living a good life and he's not a decent

man okay and so if you don't understand

this right now because you're six play

it back when you're 18

okay he said lots of things he said said

very he said things that are illegal he

said Drake was doing things that oh he's

you can listen to it

he

woof

I oh he even had this effect in the song

at the end of the song when he's like

you li he called him a liar several

times and he's like you lied I was like

oh that's that's too much

that and he tells him he tells him about

himself he talks to his son he talks to

his dad he talks to his mom and then he

talks to him directly right he also

talks to potentially a daughter that

Drake is not taking care

of which I was listening to her I was

like not again I feel

like I feel like once they find the

first kid you got to just get all the

kids you got to just have a whole gram

family just so you know where everybody

is

is you know people go back and forth

does he have a daughter does he not have

a daughter some people think they've

even found the daughter everything like

that and I don't know I don't know I

mean it's really bad it's so bad and and

and honestly I never wanted to get to a

bad place this is something I I'll talk

about this more in the future and

everything but I I have a I have a a

deep love but a strange relationship

with hip-hop because if everything is in

music it's all good it's when things

leave music that things get bad you know

and so as much as I I joke about Drake

and I like Kendrick and I've liked some

of Drake's songs I don't actually want

them to do anything to each other you

know I mean now if what Kendrick is

saying about Drake is true we should we

should lock Drake up we should lock

Drake up and and if what Drake is saying

about Kendrick is true we should lock

Kendrick up all right cuz you know it's

a is a rap battle two dudes that hate

each other maybe they're lying who knows

but I'm just I'm just saying this this

thing I didn't want to see anything bad

happen to either one of them but when

meet the grams got released I think I

don't know what Drake thinks and I don't

know what his life is like especially

right now but I think back to those

battles and those beefs in the 90s and I

I wonder if Drake wasn't

like I'd like to be shot please like

like you could just plug me one time and

then we can smooth the thing

over because

then as if meet the grams wasn't enough

Kendrick released a song called not like

us which is the catchiest way to call

somebody a I've ever heard in my

life you'll be dancing to it forgetting

what the song is about like you you know

and then Drake released the Heart part

six and I I I think that's when he lost

I

think cuz in the heart Park 6 he's like

this was all part of my plan we fed you

information about me for you to say so

everything that you said is wrong and I

don't you feel dumb now that I tricked

you and it just kind of felt

like you know like what a you know like

what a kid okay you know like when you

playing rock paper scissors

and you do rock and the other kid does

scissors and you're like and they're

like no actually these are

[Laughter]

lasers because I was like Drake Drake if

it was part of your plan to feed

Kendrick information about you for him

to rap about very well by the way like

bar like even if those are lies they do

sound good and they sound very true uh

even if you f him all this information

about you to rap about to then look dumb

when it was wrong why' you send him that

stuff that's that's the worst stuff you

could send

somebody hey tell them this thing about

me that's not true but was true once and

tell him tell him I'm a thing that no

one wants to

[Laughter]

be so now that it's over cuz I do hope

it's over

I feel

like Drake should

just release some songs about some

feelings

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